Cia Covert Operations: Panama And Nicaragua

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CIA Covert Operations: Panama and Nicaragua
In the 1950's, the repression of domestic political dissent reached near hysteria. In the process the CIA's covert operations, already in progress in
Europe, expanded worldwide. By 1953, according to the 1970's Senate investigation, there were major covert programs under way in 48 countries, consisting of propaganda, paramilitary, and political action operations. In
1949, the agency's covert action department had about 300 employees and 47 stations. In the same period, the budget for these activities grew from $4.7 million to $82 million. In this paper I will discuss the United States' use of covert actions using Panama and Nicaragua as examples. I had planned on writing my paper on Manuel Noriega and his connections with the CIA but the more I read into him I found the major topic outlying him was much more interesting. So with that I will continue on with this paper showing my findings on the CIA and thier covert operations.
Covert operations have become a way of life and death for millions of people world wide who have lost their lives to these actions. By 1980, covert operations were costing billions of dollars. CIA Director William Casey was quoted as saying “covert actions were the keystone of U.S. policy in the Third
World.”(Agee, 2) Throughout the CIA's 45 years, one president after another has used covert operations to intervene secretly, and sometimes not so secretly , in the domestic affairs of other countries, presuming their affairs were ours.
Almost always, money was spent for activities to prop up political forces considered friendly to U.S. interests, or to weaken and destroy those considered unfriendly or threatening.
The friends were easy to define, they were those who believed and acted like us, took orders and cooperated. Until the collapse of communism in Eastern
Europe, enemies were also readily recognized: the Soviet Union and its allies, with China having ambiguous status since the 1970's. But there were other countries the CIA took actions against who were not associated with the Soviets.
Iran in 1953, Guatemala in 1954, Indonesia in 1958, Cuba in 1959, Ecuador in
1963, Brazil in 1964, Chile in 1970, Nicaragua in 1979 and Grenada in 1983 to name a few.(Agee, 2) These governments, and others attacked by the U.S., were left, nationalist, reform-minded, populist or uncooperative and U.S. hostility drove some of them to seek arms and other support from the Soviet Union.
Usually, the CIA mounted covert operations to weaken and destroy the programs supporting communism by leading and advertising anti-Communist solidarity. The local elites, whose privileged position was also threatened by movements for

cheap oil supplies, and Nicaragua was due to Zelaya's liberal ideas that hurt American interests and caused José Santos Zelaya, to be labeled as a tyrant by the US government. Starting with the earliest overthrow of a foreign government after Hawaii would be Nicaragua.
The chief American interest in Nicaragua was the strong interest in the building of a canal across Nicaragua. It was regarded to be the site of the Pan-American canal, cutting across the center point of Nicaragua, was supposed to be

fourteen governments that displeased them for various ideological, political, and economic reasons." Kinzer proclaims that the operations including Iraq have been seen as successful, the vast majority have had consequences unintended. This assertion is made clear in the histories of Hawaii, Cuba, the Philippines, Nicaragua, Honduras, Iran, Guatemala, South Vietnam, Chile, Panama and Afghanistan and Iraq. Kinzer’s argument becomes more solidified by the time he mentions Afghanistan and Iraq. While the

present. In this specific case, our investigation centers upon the interplay of United States foreign policy in Latin America in the 1980’s (pursued mostly by the CIA) and the broad campaign against drugs both at home and abroad. At first glance, one might suppose that a moral ideology such as the war on drugs would be a multi-faceted operation with little available room for compromise. After all, an analogous crusade against terrorism has emerged as the overriding logic and driving force behind current

began plans for the construction of the Panama Canal. This is where the essence of the Gunboat Diplomacy comes in. Gunboat Diplomacy involves intimidation by threat or use of military force. He ended up taking Panama and then leaving the Congress to debate the situation out and while debating was building the canal.
The invasion of Panama to depose Manuel Noriega was the root of Gunboat Diplomacy. Before the Panama Canal was constructed, the country of Panama was a province of Columbia. The Federal

The CIA’s 50-year history of smuggling drugs into America is generating hatred for the United States throughout the world. Like Pontius Pilate, CIA washes their hands of the human tragedies and the corruption of government offices. They do this by remaining and by refusing to recognize the evidence, supporting corruption. For the past 50 years, the CIA has abused its power by deliberately drugging and corrupting America; and therefore should be prosecuted.
According to the constitution, the

public, Congress, and even most of his own military establishment.” This behavior of secrecy continued throughout Nixon’s presidency and led to the creation of the ‘plumbers’. The plumbers were a covert investigation unit within the White House, created to stop leaks from the White House and engage in covert activities. The plumbers were involved in unauthorized wiretappings on National Security Council staff members, and journalists after the Pentagon Papers were leaked. This behavior of misconduct

and Saddam Hussein.
Osama bin Laden gained assistance from the CIA in 1979 in what has been called “the largest covert operation in the history of the CIA.”[1] This was during the Cold War period when the Soviets had invaded Afghanistan, causing an uproar by the Afghani people, who began a jihad against the Soviets. In order to stop the spread of Communism, the United States wanted to rid Afghanistan of the Soviets.[2] So, the CIA, using the Pakistan's military Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)

this proclamation, the United States began to fund operations that were attempting to repel the Soviet invasion. Specifically, America supported the Mujahideen freedom fighters (Billard). These groups wanted to exterminate any non-Muslim invaders. Although the war ended with the withdrawal of Soviet forces, it has been argued that the United States of America “creat[ed] a Frankenstein” with their involvement in the war (Hosenball). Although the CIA has denied that they had any direct contact with Osama

1938. Theoretically, PEMEX was impugned with social objectives before market considerations. The major tasks of PEMEX were to: “stimulate national economic development . . . [to provide] very low prices on lower-grade gasoline . . . below cost operations in isolated parts of the country, subsidization of imports where its own production fell short, subsidized fuel prices for nationalized transportation facilities, and a level of employment that took account of social and political needs in addition